1558 examples of in a way in sentences

At another time, when we heard a slight crackling of twigs and he landed to reconnoitre, he stepped lightly and gracefully, stealing through the bushes with the least possible noise, in a way in which no white man does,as it were, finding a place for his foot each time.

This supernatural element, being the thing which, if true, separates Helen from other women, and in a way redeems her, is for that reason exactly what Hecuba denies.

The older man threw out his hands in a way that registered modesty.

Some, however, yielded to the authority of the government; so it often happened that an edict, which in one district was carried into full effect, was in others deferred, rejected, or violated, in a way productive of great confusion in the public affairs.

The miraculous power of the true cross among counterfeits is shown in a way that suggests kinship with the fourteenth century miracle plays.

" Goethe is profoundly right; though possibly he puts it in a way to which Homer himself might have demurred.

Contrarily, if they are active within, they do not care to be dragged out of themselves; it disturbs and impedes their thoughts in a way that is often most ruinous to them.

And thus, in a way, it was with Simpson.

If you had been in my place, would you not have done likewise?" "You have acted in a way that makes me wish I had done that myself," said the leader-goose proudly.

And Oline was, after all, of use in a way.

For the first time, I heard a woman speak of scientific subjects in a way that satisfied me; nor should I have blushed to find scientific men among her audience.

We called first upon the latter, who was extremely kind; and although she had quite misunderstood our wishes,having exerted herself to procure a place for my sister in a way that manifested the belief that we had neither a home nor the means to live,yet her friendliness and readiness to assist us made us for ever grateful to her.

From time to time I was prompted to unfold the affections of my soul, only to be repelled with the greater anguish, and to be baffled in a way the most intolerably mortifying.

Further, what if there is a spirit and a tone of treatment towards us which suggests the possibility that at some critical moment she may interfere in a way that will embarrass us and encourage our enemies?

There was an undying roar all along that coast, produced by these incessant collisions of the elements; and occasionally, when a sea entered a cavern, in a way suddenly to expel its air, the sound resembled that which some huge animal might be supposed to utter in its agony, or its anger.

Dear Dad, A most remarkable invention is weaving the world together in a way we never anticipated while you were on Earth, and it netted your writing.

2.I incline to read this piece as composed of iambs and anapests; but E. A. Poe, who has commended "the effective harmony of these lines," and called the example "an excellently well conceived and well managed specimen of versification," counts many syllables long, which such a reading makes short, and he also divides all but the iambics in a way quite different from mine, thus: "Let us scan the first stanza.

Accommodations for entertainments, chapel exercises, dancing and a bathing establishment are included in the plans in a way that gives great results with great economy of construction.

But if that night had been his last, Donald Brown could not have spent it in a way more calculated to give him pleasure as he closed his eyes.

This manner of treating poor Sinners has, methinks, great Humanity in it; and as you are a Person who pretend to carry your Reflections upon all Subjects, whatever occur to you, with Candour, and act above the Sense of what Misinterpretation you may meet with, I beg the Favour of you to lay before all the World the unhappy Condition of us poor Vagrants, who are really in a Way of Labour instead of Idleness.

When it is necessary to punish, ask for wisdom from above, and then punish in a way that he will understand you and remember the punishment.

I testified here, I think, in a way that answers that.

It is believed that about one Filipino in five suffers from tuberculosis in some form during his life and the work we have thus far accomplished in many fields must be considered as in a way a clearing of the decks for action against this, the greatest enemy of all.

It was really a dreadful experience, Bessie, and particularly because she knew it was, in a way, her own fault.

And therefore, I admire some men should perpetually stumble in a way so easy, and, inverting the order of their words, constantly close their lines with verbs, which, though commended sometimes in writing Latin, yet we were whipt at Westminster if we used it twice together.

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